Santini-Sammlung
Santini Collection
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Comprehensive collection of sources of Italian music of the 16th to 19th centuries containing some 4,500 manuscripts and 1,200 printed editions constituting some 20,000 titles in all. Belonging to the Diocesan Library of the Diocese of Münster, it was on loan to the University of Münster from 1923 to 1948, reverting to the diocese thereafter.
Abbate Fortunato Santini (1778-1862) was a Roman Catholic priest in Rome, educated in music.